The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-07
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gree.
THE extent of the losses by the recent
fire at Gravenhurst, Ont, which destroyed
half Of the town is now estimated at $780,
600. Already steps have been taken to re-
build the burned buildings.
HENRY CARPENTER, a veteran Of Leaven-
worth, Kas., started to st. Louis, but was
robbed at Kansas City of all he had, and
went back home.
THREE Tennessee moonshiners, Berry
Hill and his two sons, William and Green,
have been run down and captured in Point
sett County, Ark.
A CHINESE transport has been wrecked
on one of the Pescadores islands. Three
hundred soldiers and the captain and
crew, with the exception of one man,
We're drowned.
GEO. W. LAYsoN, accused of attempted
murder and rObbing in Rails County, Mo-,
last spring, was arrested at Deer Lodge,
Mont, on the 9th. warrant Of extradi-
tion has been issued by the Governor Of
the Territory and an officer is on the way
from Missouri for the prisoner.
FIRE at Payne, o., on the 2Sth, destroyed
a new row of business blocks. The loss is
divided among twenty or more persons,
aud is estimated at $4,000; partially in
sured
THE British steamer Matthews Cay has
been wrecked or Cape Finisterre, on the
drowned.
SERGEANT TEEPLE, Company T, Fifth
United States infantry, stationed at Fort
Smelling, who had been at st. Paul, Mimi,
for several weeks drinking heavily, cut
his throat with q razor on the 2Sth, and
died shortly afterward.
AN ammonia tank in John Freiz's brew
cry, No. 242 Scholes street, New York, ex-
ploded on the 2Sth, and bolt pierced the
NO. If av,fV hn orfu I-fTIfv4cr
him instantly. He was forty-fve years
old, and lived with his family at Ridge
wood, Lond Island.
II. z. PHELPS, Of Hartford, Mich, was
killed by railway accident at MattoOn,
H., on the 29th, while returning home
from the q. A. r. encampment at st.
Louis.
AFTER being out three hours, a Milwau-
kee jury, on the 295h, convicted j. G.
Hoelzel of poisoning his uncle, Fred Letz.
The evidence was circumstantial. The
young man tried to divert suspicion TO his
! aunt, as Letz and his wife frequently
quarreled. Hoelzel fed, but was capt
ured in Iowa.
+. NJ. SEVERANCE, chashier of the defunct
Farmers Bank of Fayetteville, N. Y, has
been arrested on complaint of Receiver
Andrews, charging him with embezzling
| $50, 900 of the banks funds.
WILLIAM T. GRBsHAw, a prominent
harness manufacturer, was at his place Of
business in Amst- dam, N, Y, on the
20th, at tho usual hou-, but, on complain
ing of being i'll, he returned home. Mrs.
| Grimshaw, his mother, who lived with
him, was called from the house, and on
her return found her son in bedroom
with his throat cut from ear to ear. His
hand clasped blood stained razor.
THIEVES got into the National Bank at
Washington, Ind, in daylight on the Both,
and got away with several hundred dol
lars.
THE steamer T. B. Sims (old D. r. Pow
eu), was burned Mt Island 40, just above
Memphis, Tenn, on the both, one life be-
| ing lost.
! ga LONE highwayman held up the pas
! sengers on two stage coaches on the route
from San Angelo to Baliinger, Tex, on the
! 29th, obtaining from them about $500.
! MUNCHRATI convicted Of completely in
/ tho murder of Dr. Haddock, at Sioux City,
| Ia, was sentenced ON the Both to four
| years in the pententiary. The case has
| been appealed.
THE Farmers Bank at Newcastle, Del,
was entered at an early hour on the morn
4 ing Of the 3Oth by masked robbers. Their
! movements awoke the cashier, who seized
his pistol and fred, wOundIEg one of the
intruders. His companions picked up the
fallen man and quickly carried him out
the front door, making their escape.
MRS. f. KINsCH eloped from Pittsburg,
! Kas., several days ago with Owen Dob
| bins, a stonemason. She is thirty-eight
years Of age aR3 the mother of six chill
dren. Dobbins has been boarding at her
| house. Mr.. Kinsch located the runaway
! couple in Kansas City on the Both, and
caused their arrest. They were put in the
/ county Jail.
THE Tombstone coach, belonging to the
| "MexicaE Joe" (Joa Sheely of Texas)
combination, while parading at 'gallop-
ing pace through the streets Of Liverpool,
England, on the Goth, capsized and the
! members of the band were scattered upon
the stone payments in all directions.
! Four were so badly injured that they had
to be taken to the hospital The band in
/ struments were ali smashed.
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